Device for feeding rags and the like.



J. S. JACOBSx DEVICE FOR FEEDING BAGS AND THE LIKE. APPLICATION FILED FEB. 26, 19H.

1 ,300,840, Patented Apr. 15, 1919.

JULIAN S. JACOBS, OF SPRINGFIELD, VERMONT, A-SSIGNOR TO J OHN T. SLACK CORPORATION, OF SPRINGFIELD, VERMONT, A CORPORATION OF VERMONT.-

DEVICE FOR FEEDING RAGS AND THE LIKE.

To allrwhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JULIAN S. JACOBS, citizen of the United States, and resident of Springfield, Vermont, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in De vices for Feeding Bags and the like, of which the following is a specification.

' This invention relates to feeding devices such as are intended for use in feeding rags,

waste or other stock into picker machines or like apparatus used for disintegrating the rags or other material preparatory to manufacturing them into shoddy, paper or the like.

In feeding the rags or other material to the picker it is highly desirable that the material to be shredded should be delivered onto the intake table or apron of the picker machine as uniformly as possible, but the tendency of therags or other stock to gather in bunches or rolls on the feed conveyer has heretofore necessitated the close attention of an operator to securea proper delivery'of the material. It is the object of the present invention toovercome this difliculty by providing a device which shall be capable of taking the material from the hopper into which it is dumped and deliver it to the picker machine free from objectionable bunches or rolls without requiring the constant attention of an operator.

To this end the invention consists in a traveling carrier or conveyer provided at frequent intervals with sharpened spikes for engaging the stock to be fed combined with dotting members arranged in close proximity to the spikes and movable at a predetermined point in the travel of the conveyer into a position to strip the material from the spikes, the doffing members being returned to inoperative position thereafter to allow the spikes to successively engage and feed additional material.

This and other features of the invention will be described in this application and will be defined in the claim annexed hereto.

In the drawings: I have illustrated a simple and convenient form of the invention designed to operate as indicated, in which,

Figure 1 is a side elevation with parts in section showing the traveling conveyer provided with the spikes and with the dofiing members in difl'erent positions at different parts of their travel.

Figs. 2 and 3 are enlarged end views show- I Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Apr. 15, 1919.

' Application filed February 26, 1917. Serial No. 151,077.

ing portions of the conveyer with a single dotting member in dofiing position and inoperative position, respectively.

Fig. 4 isjan enlarged front elevation of a portion of one of the doffing members.

Fig. 5 is a plan view transversely of the conveyer showing the dofiing member at rest.

In the practice of my invention as shown the traveling or endless conveyer a is shown as consisting of two sprocket chains o arranged side by side and spaced apart according to the desired width of the feed device, and carryingtransverse connecting slats a closely arranged in parallelism to form supports for rows of sharpened spikes cl which are embedded or secured in said slats so as to project outwardly a suflicient distance from the surface of the conveyer to engage the rags or other stock to be fed. These parallel sprocket chains pass over sprocket wheels 0, 0, 0 mountedon a horizontal shaft 0 0 0 -suitably arranged so that the conveyer travels upwardly. from the receiving end, thence across to the intake member?) of the picker machine, which may be either'atable or a feed'apron.

Each slat or transverse member of the conveyer is secured to the sprocket chains in any sultable manner, for example, by angle brackets a at each end to form a connec tion between the slat and the adjacent link of the sprocket chain. Each slat is also provided with a projecting guide pin 0 at each end which projects upwardly in parallelism with the spikes all. At its outer end each guide pin 0 has a head or nut 0 to form a stop to limit the movement of the dotting member outwardly.

\ The dofiing member in this case is shown .as a plain perforated plate or bar 6 provided with apertures for receiving the feed spike cl and also with apertures for receiving the guide pins 0 but the particular form of the dofiing member is not essential. Each doffing member is also provided with a bracket 6 which projects'laterally beyond the sides of the conveyer and is preferably formed with a lip e for engaging a track or lifting member 7", one of which is arranged on either side of the conveyer adjacent to the point of delivery so as to engage the bracket 6 forming part of the doiiing member to move it outwardly in order to strip the material from the spikes at the delivery point of the conveyer travel. The bracket 6 is preferably perforated to receive and engage the guide pins 0 so as to cooperate with the At the lower end of the, carrier adjaGel t. to the receiving point a pair of curved dolfer engaging members or tracks is arranged in, position to engage the outside face of the bracket 6- in order to. return the doting members t idle 'or i oper v p si i So as to Permi the djacent sp ke o p rera c and h d th material del r to h m.

The operation of the device is as follows: The rag or other stock is, lumped intothe hon ore from wh ch it proje ts ont a fee apron. a which delivers it to the cony r .0 Each s ccessive row f sp k s engages the rags. from the feed apron a and draws them out to an appr ximate y fl t or extended" position through the ascending part of the. travel between the sprocket wheels 0, or. Thence the material. is: carried across the upper part of the travel so as to approach the in ake memb or ap n b of the picker. Asthe successive rows of spikes approach their point- ;of delivery to the picl'ger. intake,, the. successive doffing members. cooperating with said\ row of spikes is moved upwardly so. as to strip the rags from the spikes at a point where the rags will be free. to, fall upon the picker intake. The stripper or dofiing members: will remain in stripping position under the influence of gravity during its downward travel until it approaches the cooperating members 9 which, by engaging the outer faceof the projecting portion 6' returns the stripping member tonormalor inoperative position.

The nuts or heads 0 serve to prevent, the

dofi'er members from dropping from the conveyer while by unscrewing these nuts any dofling'member may readily be removed for replacement or repairs,

It will be observed that the stripping or dofiing membersarepositively moved out to and, beyond the extreme ends or points of the spik s by reason of the r e gag ment with the track or lifting member 1 so that the dofiing is reliably accomplished nomat ter how tightly of the rags may be imp led up he pike It wi a so be ob: served that the clotting orstripping members are positively returned to position by engagement with the lower track members 9;

What I aim is V V A feed device of the class described em bracing an endless carrier provided with: successively arranged series of transverse ragengaging spikes, a series of movable dofi ng members normally resting upon the carrier adjacent to the base portions of said spikes, and means for positively moving said dotting members outwardly to the points of said spikes in. order tocompletely disengage from said spikes the rags. impaled tl ereon, sub stantially as described.

p In Witness whereof, rams subscribed the above specification.

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